Theda Bara:
* Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of the cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" (short for vampire), later fueling the rising popularity in "vamp" roles that encapsulated exoticism and sexual domination. Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire. After her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, she made two more feature films and then retired from acting in 1926, never appearing in a sound film.

The fourth assignment in the Muses from Afar series.

Instructor: Ellen Von Unwerth @ellenvonunwerth
instagram : @MusesEscape #musesfromafar #musesescape www.themuses.art

Ellen von Unwerth:
* Born 1954 in Germany, gained wide attention with her sensual Guess campaign in the early 1990s, followed by campaigns for Absolut, Agent Provocateur, A.P.C., Aston Martin, Baccarat, Belvedere, Chanel, Chantal Thomass, Crazy Horse, David Morris, Diesel, Dior, Elisabetta Franchi, Ferragamo, GStar, Guerlain, H&M, Hysteric Glamour, Jimmy Choo, Lacoste, L’Oréal, MAC Cosmetics, Mary Katrantzou, MercedesBenz, Miu Miu, Opel, Revlon, Rolex, Shiseido, Tommy Hilfiger, Veuve Cliquot, Victoria’s Secret, and many more. She is a regular contributor to magazines all over the world, like Cosmopolitan, Egoïste, ELLE, Glamour, iD, Interview, Lula, Numéro, Paper Magazine, Playboy, Stern, The Face, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and many international Vogue editions (American, French, German, Italian, Russian). Furthermore she directed short films for clients like Azzedine Alaïa, Dior, Guess, and Katherine Hamnett, and a range of commercials and music videos. Her book projects are an important part of her career: Her first book, Snaps, was published in 1994, followed by Wicked (1998), Couples (1999), the photonovella Revenge (2003), Omahyra & Boyd (2005), Fräulein (2009), DieSpieler (2010), the photonovella The Story of Olga (2012), and lately Heimat (2017). Her works have been exhibited worldwide, and are part of various collections. Her exhibition Devotion! 30 Years of Photographing Women was created for Fotografiska Stockholm in 2018 and it was one of the opening exhibitions at Fotografiska New York in 2020. Von Unwerth won several prizes, amongst others the first prize at the International Festival of Fashion Photography in 1991 and a LUCIE award for her career achievement in Fashion Photography in October 2019.